Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Proof of the shortage of vessels was everywhere last week. On the docks at Buenos Aires was piled three times as much goods for shipments to the U. S. as there was cargo space available. The whole "Good Neighbor" program in Latin America was endangered by lack of ships to carry on the trade which the U. S. has subsidized through its Export-Import...
Last week the Maritime Commission received from the Office of Production Management a list of "essential" and "nonessential" imports which soon will be translated into cargo priorities. Classed as essential were the strategic and critical materials (rubber, tin, etc.), plus such secondary or civilian musts as leather, wool, zinc, copper, quinine, coffee, sugar, cocoa. On the nonessential list were frillier items which the U. S. imported to the amount of $200,000,000 last year: spices, wine, tea, furs, coconut oil, palm oil, fibres and burlap. By rationing shipping space just as machine tools and aluminum already are being rationed...
...Jameson also had something to say about U. S. ethics. Longshoremen loading Japanese ships had reported that below-decks cargo space was filled with U. S. copper, steel ingots and brass scrap. He told of "millions of brass slugs from slot machines" being transshipped from the U. S. For the so-called U. S. embargo on war materials for Japan is even leakier than the Canadian. Only U. S. bans are on iron and steel scrap, allowing other scrap metals to go through unchecked, and on aviation gasoline, which simply forces Japan to crack unrestricted low-test fuels...
Under the defense program, busy Mr. Kaiser has been busier than ever. He is helping build the new $25,000,000 Naval Air Base at Corpus Christi, Tex. As an aide to his good friend John David Reilly, president of Todd Shipyards Corp., he is helping build 60 cargo ships for Britain, 87 freighters for the Maritime Commission, a fleet of destroyers for the Navy. His Permanente Co. put up a cement plant in California and snagged a big Government contract by underbidding other Pacific Coast firms by an average...
...build 75 of the standardized 7,500-ton freighters, under President Roosevelt's new 200 emergency ship program, yards were under construction at Houston, New Orleans and Wilmington, N. C. At Mobile, Ala., new Gulf Shipbuilding Co. yards were working on their first contract (four cargo ships worth about $12,000,000). Norfolk, Va. had a newcomer in Welding Shipyards, Inc. (starting off with a $4,000,000 tanker...